These drugs decimate ordinary bacteria.
She also implicated antibiotics, since they can decimate protective, good bacteria along with the bad.
The garbage is out of control, river shellfish have been decimated by coliform bacteria, turtle nesting grounds have been ruined.
The injunction by a Sacramento County Superior Court judge, issued late last week, could throw a substantial hurdle in front of efforts by the state Department of Food and Agriculture to control dozens of crop-damaging pests such as the Asian citrus psyllid, which carries bacteria that have decimated the citrus industry in Brazil and Florida.
A case in point: through our overuse of antibiotics, we are inadvertently breeding strains of bacteria that can invade and decimate our bodies rendering doctors helpless to stop them.
Now, researchers have found an arsenal of new insect-killing genes in the genome of a bacterium that decimates a wide variety of insects.
"Decimated houses, decimated health care, decimated schools.
As you would expect in the world of the Red Queen, bacteria do not sit idly by while phages decimate them but, rather, have evolved an array of sophisticated defense mechanisms.
The Oregon Department of Public Health confirmed on Thursday that the unidentified man, who's in his 50s, has tested positive for Yersinia pestis, the same bacteria that was responsible for the pandemic that decimated Europe's population in the 14th century.
All the good bacteria that normally inhabit the human gut — bacteria that get decimated with antibiotics — somewhat inhibit toxic microbes from getting a foothold or flourishing, even if they cannot fight off a full-scale assault.
